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The only number I got from the article is the following.
The rest is made up data to show such number is absurd. Other numbers may be correct.
You can't prove something being absurd with made-up data, especially when that made-up number not correlating with real life numbers, which like I said before, to me looks like somewhere between 10 and 25, not 10000, which is also made-up, but at least to me it actually makes sense. Your number does not.
There are between 10 and 25 Russians deployed in the battlefield? Feels like in that case a Ukrainian soldier could easily slip by more or less anywhere and get anywhere they wish in Russia.
Frontline is 12,000 kilometers, with 25 soldiers in the battlefield that is 480 kilometers between each soldier in the battlefield.
Replenished, not deployed at all times. Very different meaning. Now that I took a look at recent casualties, the number is probably double of that.
If their number of soldiers is much higher than 50 and they are on average losing all of their deployed troops every half an hour they will eventually end up with just 50 soldiers on the front. And they'd lose those 50 soldiers in a few hours anyway. As long as the above statement is true.
I have no doubts they're probably not replenishing much more than 50 soldiers per day. I have doubts the life expectancy of a soldier is 30 minutes.
1000+
Well, that is quite a larger number than 50
I think you're confusing per day/per hour/per those 30 minutes.
Maybe, but still does it make sense to you this life expectancy of 30 minutes? They're reinforcing 1000 per day and those 1000 generally die in 30 minutes.
I mean, the numbers are there. I frequent combat footage communities and it's honestly not that shocking. They have been reporting daily ever since war began, and by now it has pretty much peaked on troop casualty count per day which is why Russia is also recruiting much more aggressively, even just snatching people from the street like we've seen in many videos. They're obviously becoming quite desperate in their attempts to replenish the lost troops.